NDTV.com - News on Naxals kill six Karnataka policemen: "Six policemen were killed early this morning in a Naxal attack in Tumkur district on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border. Naxalites targeted the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) camp at Venkammanahalli in Pawgarh taluk. Reacting to the attack, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the maintenance of law and order is the responsibility of civilised governments. About 110 Naxals came in three vans to the KSRP camp set at a school building. They gunned down the sentry at the camp and fired indiscriminately at the KSRP men inside.
The Karnataka government has decided to set up two anti-Naxal squads to carry out operations in Malnad areas and the plains. The squads will be headed by a DIG and comprise 250 security personnel each. One squad will be deployed in the Malnad districts of Chikamagalur, Mangalore and Udupi, where the naxals have been trying to gain a foothold.
The other will be placed in Bidar, Gulbarga, Tumkur, Raichur, Bellary and Kolar districts.
Karnataka, which has been relatively free of Naxal activity, has seen a spurt in attacks by Naxalites in recent weeks. Last week, top Naxal leader Saketh Rajan was shot dead by police in an encounter along with another associate in Chikamagalur district. (with PTI inputs)"
Friday, February 11, 2005
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